1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

I can change the story. I am the story.

When telling a story, I feel like it is important to try to crack the surface of our insular American experience in as many places as possible, then pour my characters into those seams like an epoxy.

A great snow is the calm death of struggle and the transformative birth of life.

There is no man but carries in his breast the makings of a story, which, though never told, comes more home to him, than any the mind of another man can find and fashion in words("The Watcher O' The Dead")

Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction with reality.

Why don't you tell me a story?

Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.

You don’t have to create a big heroic story for everything. You are already my hero.